Scientific name: Epilobium palustre L.
Common name: Marsh Willowherb
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 60 cm high.
Stems: Erect, branched, with long and thin stolons often underground.
Leaves: Opposite, without stipules, stalkless, hairless, linear-lanceolate, undivided, toothed.
Flowers: Pale pink, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 5 mm across, in loose terminal racemes; calyx 4-lobed; petals 4, often notched; stamens 8; stigma not 4-lobed; ovary inferior, very long and narrow.
Fruits: A 4-celled linear capsule, seeds small, each with a tuft of cotton-like hairs.
Habitat: Marshes, bogs, fens and ditches.Distribution: Rare in the Burren, occasional to frequent elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No